David Levain is aBerlin-based architectand urbanist.

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His work ranges from the small to the very large scale, little gardens to urban studies, with the ambition to investigate the many territories behind the fragmented contemporary urban condition. If there is a method: research-based. Philosophy: behind each project, a close attention to the existing, the attempt to stimulate transformation processes that don’t know any beginning or any end, a deliberate focus on the unbuilt and the presence of nature as the primary matter for situations in evolution.

Before starting his own practice in 2013, David Levain was a project leader at LIN Finn Geipel + Giulia Andi in Berlin. There, between 2009 and 2013, he acquired a solid experience of collaborative and multidisciplinary work within the urban realm while leading key projects such as ”Grand Paris” – an urban vision for the metropolitan region of Paris commissioned by former French President Nicolas Sarkozy –, “Berges de Maine“ in Angers, and the award-winning project “Cour des Douanes-Zollhofareal“ in Strasbourg and Kehl.

Beside previous experiences in different architectural practices, David has regularly been teaching architecture and urbanism in the recent years. He was successively an assistant teacher for architectural theory at ENSAPB in Paris (2008-2009), a regular guest critic at TU Berlin (2010-2013) and a guest teacher/lecturer at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen (March 2012).

For LIN, David contributed to several exhibitions in Berlin and Paris and different publications in France and Germany. He participated in numerous lectures, seminars and roundtables, at Atelier International du Grand Paris, TU Berlin, TU Munich, Heidelberger Bauforum, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts...

David has long been engaged with research and theory. After investigating on Berlin and its late urban developments, he is currently writing an urban theory article on contemporary approaches to urbanism, to be published in the french periodical review Marnes, Documents d’Architecture, due for Winter 2014.

Born in Paris, David studied at ENSAPB and TU Berlin. He holds a Diploma in Architecture from ENSAPB as well as the corresponding License for Professional Architectural Practice (HMONP).